Places to explore in ShropshireEngland · West Midlands

Jagged quartzite tors along a wild ridge.

537 m

Sweeping heather moorland plateau above Church Stretton.

27 km²

Best-preserved fortified medieval manor, timber gatehouse.

The world's first major cast-iron bridge, cast at Coalbrookdale and thrown over the Severn in 1779, heart of a World Heritage gorge.

Twelve-mile wooded limestone escarpment running from Much Wenlock to Craven Arms, sung by Housman and Vaughan Williams.

Great border castle above a handsome market town.

Grand Regency mansion in a Repton deer park.

Isolated wooded hill, the county's beloved landmark.

407 m

National Trust valley biting into the Long Mynd above Church Stretton, a busy gateway to the open hill.

Museum of decorative tiles in the former Craven Dunnill works by the Severn, part of the Ironbridge Gorge collection.

Mitchell's Fold stone circle, standing stone and cairn 280m south west of Mitchell's Fold

Timber-framed medieval town in a Severn loop.